Prayer rug

Museum number:
9-6564
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2024
Description:
Prayer rug; grey-green bronze, variegated field; ivory border; (1 outside blcok, 1 inside grey and 1 small guard); inscriptions on side of niche; 76 inches x 53 inches.
Donor:
Mardig Y. Parnay
Collection place:
Anatolia, Turkey
Verbatim coll. place:
Turkey; Anatolia
Collector:
Mardig Y. Parnay
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Prayer rugs
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer rug, accession number 9-6564, described as Prayer rug; grey-green bronze, variegated field; ivory border; (1 outside blcok, 1 inside grey and 1 small guard); inscriptions on side of niche; 76 inches x 53 inches.

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